A Nation Mourns........
Finally I am able to put myself together to write about events in Nigeria in the last one week. I tried to protect myself by simply looking away from my social media pages, but the thoughts just never go away. The pain runs deep, the sorrow, the grief, the goriness. No word can describe them! My psyche is battered, my soul is tormented and my heart is tortured. Why do we deserve this horror as a people! Why? We are all touched and bereaved by this loss of precious lives, this can and should never be accepted as the new "normal". Apologies to the religious folks, this is not the time for prayers. For way too long, we have been deceiving ourselves; acting like a particular manner will fall from heaven and right the wrongs, or bring sanity into our system. For almost 6 decades, we have been rigorously praying away our problems, instead of standing up, take our destiny in our own hands, and act like a people with a purpose. So this time around, can we spare the prayers, and b...